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How to Make Chicken Hareesa
Total time60 min
Prep40 min
Cook20 min
Yield4 servings
DifficultyMedium
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Mains

ChefHana Musa Naama

How to Make Chicken Hareesa

This recipe for chicken hareesa with peeled wheat is very tasty and easy, although the wheat needs a long time on the stove to cook through.

Ingredients

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  • 1 kilogram peeled wheat
  • 4 kilograms chicken
  • 100 grams butter
  • 100 grams ghee
  • Salt
  • Seven-spice
  • Cinnamon
  • Black pepper
  • Bay leaves
  • Cinnamon stick
  • Cardamom pod
  • 2 onions
  • 3 cloves

Method

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  1. Wash the wheat with lukewarm water and leave it to soak in water for several hours before cooking. When it is time to cook the wheat, wash it again, drain it, place it in a pot with enough water to cover it, and let the wheat cook until tender.
  2. Wash the chicken and place it in a second pot to boil with the aromatics, but without the spices.
  3. Set aside a little of the chicken cooking broth and add the spices to it to release their flavor, but when you later add the spice mixture to the hareesa, put it through a strainer.
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  5. When the wheat is cooked, add the boiled, cooked chicken pieces, then add the butter and ghee, mashing continuously with a wooden spoon. In the final step, add the spices and salt as needed.

Recipe tags

MainsGulfGluten freeNut freeEgg freeMediumBalanced time

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